I'll post more on Presenting later this week as Patrick and I start creating our deck for this year's TechEd, but here's a great article called "Stop your presentation before it kills again!" The best part is the Do My Slides Suck Test:
The "Do My Slides Suck" Test 1) Do your slides contain mostly bullet points?2) Do you have more than 12-15 words on a slide?3) Do your slides add little or no new info beyond what you can say in words?4) Are your slides, in fact, not memorable? 5) Are your slides emotionally empty?6) Do your slides fail to encourage a deeper connection to or understanding of the topic?7) Do your slides distort the data? 8) Do your slides encourage cognitive weakness? (refer to Tufte)A "Yes" to any of those could be a huge red flag that something's wrong.[From Creating Passionate Users]
1) Do your slides contain mostly bullet points?2) Do you have more than 12-15 words on a slide?3) Do your slides add little or no new info beyond what you can say in words?4) Are your slides, in fact, not memorable? 5) Are your slides emotionally empty?6) Do your slides fail to encourage a deeper connection to or understanding of the topic?7) Do your slides distort the data? 8) Do your slides encourage cognitive weakness? (refer to Tufte)A "Yes" to any of those could be a huge red flag that something's wrong.[From Creating Passionate Users]